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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "might come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "foreign remittance manager" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "is 100% risk-free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Diallo Monda" <diallomondad@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mr_diallomondaa@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:43:18 +0100
Subject: I need your Urgent reply

Dear Friend,

This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation to ignore it as
unserious could come into your mind but please consider it a divine wish and
accept it with a deep sense of humility.

My Name is MR DIALLO MONDA, I am the Bill and Exchange Manager of BANK OF
AFRICA (B.O.A) Ouagadouguo Burkina Faso.

In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of USD$14.500.000 (FOURTEEN
MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS). In an account that
belonged to one of our foreign customers ENGINNER CHRISTIAN EICH who died
along with his entire family in a plane crash that happened on 25th July
2000.

Since I got information about his death, I have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the deceased, as
indicated in our banking guildelines but unfortunately we learnt that all
his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside side with him in the
plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this business
proposals to you and release this money to you as next of kin to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for
it, because I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as
unclaimed fund. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such
money remains unclaimed after six years, the money will be transferred into
the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.

The request of foreigner in this transaction is necessary because our late
customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner. I have agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign
partner in respect to the provision of a foreign account.10% will be set
aside for expenses that may occure during the course of the transaction and
60% would be for me, after which I shall visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as we
arranged,you will furnished me with a good receving account detail where the
money will be transfered,your private telephone and fax numbers for easy
communication.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail a text of
the application which you shall retype and fax to our foreign remittance
manager,for easy execution of the transaction.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100%
risk-free on both side. As all required arrangement have been made for the
transfer.

Please I would like you to keep this transaction confidential and as a top
secret as you may wish to know that I am a Bank official.

N.B.In orther to proceed and beleive me honestly over this transaction, i
would like you to try and go through this (wedsite) below and come back to
me as soon as you are through with it so that we should proceed the effect
of this
transaction.(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm).Please i
needed your urgent response over this transaction.

You should contact me immediately you receives this letter.


Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Sincerely
MR.DIALLO MONDA.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
BANK OF AFRICA(B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.

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